The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
A mathematician who can only generalise is like a monkey who can only climb up a tree, and a mathematician who can… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Education is worth little if it teaches only how to make a living rather than how to make a life. — Mary Hatwood Futrell Copy Share Image
If we can't express what we know in the form of numbers, we really don't know much about it. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your… — Farkas Bolyai Copy Share Image
Mathematics has been called the science of the infinite. Indeed, the mathematician invents finite constructions by which questions are decided that by… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Always remember that moving on is not like math that comes with a formula. It is more like the theory of general… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy Copy Share Image
I love it when you have an epiphany and suddenly get how to do a math problem. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The main thing that you learn in grad school, or should learn, is how to think like an economist. The rest is… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
The real work of us mathematicians, from now until, roughly, fifty years from now, when computers won't need us anymore, is to… — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
“Mathematics should be studied if only for that it puts the mind in order.” — Mikhail Lomonosov Copy Share Image
The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.” — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“A distinguished writer [Siméon Denis Poisson] has thus stated the fundamental definitions of the science: 'The probability of an event is the… — George Boole Copy Share Image
I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to… — Johann Bernoulli Copy Share Image
“Furious, the beast writhed and wriggled its iterated integrals beneath the King’s polynomial blows, collapsed into an infinite series of indeterminate terms,… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism; we must see the implications of a theory for what… — Kevin Michel Copy Share Image
“People often think computers are all about numbers, but they’re not. Computers are all about logic.” — Pedro Domingos Copy Share Image
The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. So there is a chance… — Alexander Markovich Polyakov Copy Share Image
“Look unto the stars to teach us How the master’s thoughts can reach us Each one follows Newton’s math Silently along its… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve. — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
To function effectively, the system scientist must know a considerable amount about the natural world AND about mathematics, without being an expert… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
Scarcity Is Counting The Number Of Seeds In An Apple. Abundance Is Contemplating The Number Of Apples In A Seed. May You… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
...Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
“People joke, in our field, about Pythagoras and his religious cult based on perfect geometry and other abstract mathematical forms, but if… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
One of my colleagues likes to say that, mathematics is the - he thinks about the only subject that he knows in… — Peter Woit Copy Share Image
I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
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The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
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